#otherlanguagesmatters
(INB4 yes, that's the reference to an old joke about Lufthansa pilot in Frankfurt complaining he's forced to speak in English to the control tower)
Honestly though, English is a quite good starting language due to its simplicity, but I do hope more attention will be expended on making the technology like this trainable on other languages as well.
According to the section titled "Why is Parsing So Hard For Computers to Get Right?" in the blog post, determining the difference between "An English parser" and "An English parser" .. is Parsey's great strength.
Five stars, would pun again.
Why would they have a fit if Google named it Jane or John?
I am so glad to be rid of her vapid nonsense.
It is a silly name and makes me think it is not a serious effort. But names can be deceiving.
Seriously though, this is just a joke on an Internet meme. Quit being a buzzkill.
What kind of parser is it?
An English parser.
... :)
You know, it's a brilliant name. It's a person's name, like Siri or Cortana. But if they'd named it Jane or John, the mass media would have a fit. So they side-stepped that by making it sound computer-y, while remaining a proper name. Brilliant.